stairways (2016) by tiny.

Music that found its way back into my hands, thankfully.

This album, moreso a collection of songs, encapsulates over three years of internal turmoil. Self-deprecation, self-harm, psychotic breaks, and brief moments of solace have spilled their way into these tracks. Some were cathartic, some hurt to make, some were outright bad for my health.

This collection of songs spans the duration of my complete and utter undoing. The music came with holes in my wall, holes in my heart, and holes in my mind. It came with screams and kicks and punches, much like the composition of the music itself. It came with nights of hair ripped out, knife gashes on my skin, police dispatches, and hospital beds. It came with medications and the trouble that comes with trying to find the right ones. Much like the mixing and mastering of this music, the album comes with the struggle of mixing and mastering my mind. As Big KRIT once put it, “life is an EQ of highs and lows.”

The forest was me. Tinyforest. Dave. But the forest is gone now, and all I’m left with is the reminder of how inconsequential, or tiny, my existence truly is within the grand scheme. This is my album, this is my mind, and these are my creations. I'm messier than I've ever thought I could be, but I'm here, and the music tells the story better than any string of words ever could.

In closing, this is but a reminder of how close we all are to the edge of extinction.

This is the forest that burned to the ground.

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